...Hattie wanted to give her babies names that weren't already chiseled on a headstone in the family plots in Georgia, so she gave them names of promise and of hope, reaching-forward names, not looking-back ones.
Ayana MathisI try to look for the beauty in things.
Ayana MathisHalf of what’s wrong with people today is that they ain’t got no place to go that makes them peaceful. I don’t reckon you got no place like that.
Ayana MathisStichwörter: bell-chapter willie
At home they thought of white people as a vague but powerful entity--like the forces that control the weather, that capable of destruction, that hidden from view.
Ayana MathisStichwörter: race race-relations
It seemed to him that he could never get a proper grip on any of the beauty in this world.
Ayana MathisIt seemed to him that every time he made one choice in his life, he said no to another. All of those things he could not do or be were huddled inside of him; they might spring up at any moment, and he would be hobbled with regret.
Ayana MathisAt last, her mother and sisters exited the station and came to stand next to her. “Mama,” Hattie said. “I’ll never go back. Never.
Ayana MathisHis pain was his most precious and secret possession, and Six held on to it as fiercely as a jewel robbed from a corpse.
Ayana MathisThe Lord brings us into this world naked, but I don’t suppose he means us to stay that way
Ayana MathisHattie’s children died in the order in which they were born: first Philadelphia, then Jubilee.
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